Avant Garde Movies

  • 1983
    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

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    Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

    OK Today Tomorrow
  • 1927
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

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    A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
  • 1973
    The Holy Mountain

    The Holy Mountain

    The Holy Mountain

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    The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention...

    The Holy Mountain
  • 1974
    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

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    Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a...

    Dyketactics
  • 1971
    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

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    Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

    Doldertal 7
  • 1971
    WR: Mysteries of the Organism

    WR: Mysteries of the Organism

    WR: Mysteries of the Organism

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    What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker...

    WR: Mysteries of the Organism
  • 1989
    Santa Sangre

    Santa Sangre

    Santa Sangre

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    A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

    Santa Sangre
  • 2022
    Kaguya

    Kaguya

    Kaguya

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    Under the impetus of the 75th anniversary of the bamboo top-handle bags, the House presents a contemporary retelling of an ancient Japanese story...

    Kaguya
  • 1966
    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    Ming Green

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    This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

    Ming Green
  • 1983
    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

    Dog's Night Song

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    A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

    Dog's Night Song
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

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    CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1965
    Time Piece

    Time Piece

    Time Piece

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    Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...

    Time Piece
  • 2006
    About Buenos Aires

    About Buenos Aires

    About Buenos Aires

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    Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its...

    About Buenos Aires
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

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    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 2016
    Wish You Were Here

    Wish You Were Here

    Wish You Were Here

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    Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

    Wish You Were Here
  • 2014
    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

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    Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

    Second Sighted
  • 1968
    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

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    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

    Lonesome Cowboys
  • 1965
    The Art of Vision

    The Art of Vision

    The Art of Vision

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    A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination...

    The Art of Vision
  • 1972
    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

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    A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

    Mis-Takes
  • 1994
    Totally F***ed Up

    Totally F***ed Up

    Totally F***ed Up

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    Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and...

    Totally F***ed Up